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- Energy Transition
Iberdrola to acquire Contigo Energia's Spanish power retail business
Renewables Now names the buyer, seller and asset but reports no purchase price, customer count or expected close.
- Data centers & fiber
SubCo announces three Indo-Pacific cables totaling more than 40,000km
All three systems are specified at 24 fiber pairs and due live in 2029; full landing-point details have not been shared.
- Data centers & fiber
Pat Gelsinger-backed PicoJool raises $27.5 million to scale VCSELs for AI links
The Series A, led by Socratic Partners, brings the Palo Alto startup's total funding to $39.5 million as it works toward qualifying its optical modules with customers.
- Data centers & fiber
GreenSquareDC signs Sharon AI for first stage of Sydney data center campus
Sharon AI expects to deploy about 8,200 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs at SYD1, with initial operations targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.
- Data centers & fiber
Akamai signs seven-year, $11.6bn compute lease with Anthropic
The CPU capacity deal includes up to $9bn of potential expansion, $5.5bn of capex, and a warrant for about 5% of Akamai's common stock that vests as the customer buys more.
- Energy Transition
Saint-Gobain signs 60 GWh-a-year UK power deal with TotalEnergies
The announcement omits price, contract length and the generating asset, so the same 60 GWh could be financing for new build or a hedge on existing output.
- The Wrap
How 230-kW AI racks are shifting data center capital to switchgear and rate design
Vertiv's 22,000-square-meter Slovakia expansion and Michigan's outcome-linked earnings proposal show where reliability money goes while Oklo's 750 MW sits out of PJM's queue after a FERC procedural rejection.
- Data centers & fiber
Siemens webinar puts AI racks at 230 kilowatts, recommending scenario-based planning
A Siemens Grid Software webinar recap published on Utility Dive cites Dominion Energy's Northern Virginia experience on early coordination for large loads as high-density AI projects arrive.
- Energy Transition
Lirion Power is acquiring a 77-MW Irish wind portfolio from GIP
Renewables Now names buyer, seller and capacity, but no purchase price, offtake counterparty or completion date
- Energy Transition
ACEN sells 10% of 250-MW Indian solar project without naming buyer or price
The Renewables Now report names neither buyer nor valuation, leaving the implied price per megawatt unstated.
- Data centers & fiber
Vertiv plans 22,000 sqm Slovakia expansion for AI power and cooling gear
The two-year buildout at Nové Mesto nad Váhom adds switchgear and liquid cooling lines, with hiring set for 2027 through 2029.
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- Data centers & fiber
AI load swings are outrunning the redundancy playbook
A DCD opinion piece separates the failure modes an engineer can name from the interactions between healthy systems that millisecond AI load swings can set off.
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- Transport & public-private
The funding deadline moved to Dec. 11; the letting calendar did not
Congress gave surface transportation programs ten more weeks, leaving state DOTs and their bidders carrying the schedule risk they began hedging in July.
- Energy Transition
Rural America holds the megawatts; the counties hold the veto
An 87% rural generation share turns county boards and interconnection dockets, not land, into the binding constraint on the next tranche of clean capacity.
- The Wrap
Washington's grid money stops buying new corridors
The $1.9 billion SPARK package buys 23 gigawatts on lines that already exist, turning the data center buildout's power schedule into a question of tariff design.
- Data centers & fiber
Vocus's 4,000km Darwin fiber has no tenant, cost, or contract named
The Brisbane-Darwin route lands in 2030 with up to 3,456 strands, and the announcement names none of the commitments that would make it financeable.
- Energy Transition
Low Carbon's 500-MW Oxfordshire plan arrives without a buyer
A second Low Carbon headline in a month carries capacity and a county but no counterparty, which makes it a financing document before it is an infrastructure one.
- Data centers & fiber
Nscale's $3.36 billion raise is a bet on 5 percent energized GPUs
The notes convert to ordinary shares at listing, so the pre-IPO money is a wager on the public price, not on a data center fleet that is 5 percent switched on.
- The Wrap
Michigan's ratemaking push puts capex compounding on the table
A longer filing calendar is the easy half of the commission's affordability package; outcome-linked earnings are the half that reprices the asset class.
- Energy Transition
FERC keeps Oklo's 750-MW Virginia project out of PJM's queue
A procedural rejection leaves Oklo's three-technology plant at least 18 months behind and hands five similar complaints the same reasoning.
- Data centers & fiber
Skanska's $84 million Georgia award buys a shell and a clock
At $343 a square foot, the contract is a construction number; the risk sits in the calendar and a power arrangement the release never mentions.
- Data centers & fiber
Korea's 'sensitive tier' would wall US clouds out of government work
A pending National Intelligence Service guideline could turn a cybersecurity standard into a residency mandate, and Rep. Carol Miller argues it would break two decades of US-Korea trade commitments.
- Energy Transition
Vattenfall names 429 MW in England, and little else
The English portfolio arrives with no site, no consent status and no counterparty, extending a pattern that turns sector milestones into financing hooks rather than infrastructure proofs.
- Data centers & fiber
Prince William cuts by-right data center zoning by two thirds
Shrinking the by-right overlay by two thirds turns Northern Virginia entitlement into the scarce asset and hands the buildout to whoever can afford a public hearing.
- Transport & public-private
Development banks are writing this market's only priced deals
The DFC's Jordanian water package joins the World Bank's Paraíba financing as the file's only money items, leaving the domestic pipeline in mandate form.
- Data centers & fiber
Google's first orbital data center is four chips and one kilowatt
The test that matters on Project Suncatcher is radiation tolerance, and mission life is the number orbital compute has to earn.
- Energy Transition
ERG puts Glencore on the record and withholds the price
A named buyer does the underwriting work in Polish wind, and the economics stay unpublished.
- The Wrap
Development capital now writes checks on blank term sheets
Proparco, Finnfund and CIB disclosed check sizes while withholding the asset terms that would let anyone price the exposure.
- Energy Transition
A $33m Colombian solar check arrives without a stake or a pipeline
Finnfund and Proparco have made public the size of their Erco commitment and none of the terms a lender or underwriter could act on.
- Data centers & fiber
SFR's €20.35bn breakup has a labor bill the term sheet misses
The three-carrier carve-up takes France from four mobile operators to three, and the redundancy plan it triggers is the cost the consortium has yet to underwrite.
- Energy Transition
First power proves the drill; the 900MW is still a claim
Google signed 396MW before Cape Station produced a kilowatt, making the January 2027 commissioning date the number that carries Fervo's valuation.
- Data centers & fiber
Applied Digital prices Tuscaloosa consent at $270m, tenant still unnamed
The Alabama site prices local permission at $13.5 million a year; the credit that sets the asset's value stays out of the document.
- Energy Transition
Queensland's Bungaban approval lands without a number, an owner or an offtake
The Bungaban sign-off clears one gate and leaves the two that price the asset, connection and offtake, unanswered.
- Energy Transition
DOE's $1.9 billion buys grid speed, not new corridors
The SPARK package funds conductors and grid-enhancing technology on lines that already exist, moving the marginal federal transmission dollar off greenfield corridors and onto assets the data center buildout can actually schedule.
- Energy Transition
Oyster names a steelmaker for its 48-MWp park and leaves the rest blank
An industrial offtaker makes the missing tariff a private term. The connection point is what prices the plant.
- Energy Transition
Websol's 4-GW West Bengal land deal arrives without the numbers
A land title is the cheapest milestone in a solar factory, and the coverage attaches no capex, no offtake and no date to the 4 GW.
- Energy Transition
Nexgen drops 160 MW of Philippine wind, unexplained
A capacity figure and a country, with nothing attached that would let anyone price either one.
- Energy Transition
CIB prices the loan and leaves the mine unnamed
A USD 14.4m loan to a Canadian gold mine arrives with a lender and two technologies, but no project size, owner, or power price.
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- Energy Transition
A $1.9B down payment on grid capacity
The federal government is funding the cheapest capacity available—more throughput from existing lines—but 31 projects won't resolve the grid's binding constraint.
- Data centers & fiber
Onsemi's GaN window makes a power semiconductor the bottleneck behind the meter
The company expects mass production in 2026/27, which would let racks get denser while leaving the grid queue untouched.